Chicago Bears hire Marc Trestman as their new coach

It’s the first head coaching job in the NFL for Trestman, a longtime assistant in the league who spent the past five seasons coaching the Canadian Football League’s Alouettes and led them to two Grey Cup titles.

Trestman was an offensive coordinator with Cleveland, San Francisco, Arizona and Oakland.

• If Smith, the former Bears coach, fails to land a head-coaching job, he’s prepared to sit out the 2013 season because he’s not interested in any of the coordinator jobs, according to a source with knowledge of the situation.

Smith interviewed for head-coaching jobs in Philadelphia, San Diego and Buffalo, but each of those teams selected other candidates.

The only other two coaching vacancies are in Arizona and Jacksonville.

FALCONS: The team is making contingency plans in case defensive end John Abraham is unable to play at full capacity in Sunday’s NFC title game against San Francisco.

Abraham, the NFL’s active sacks leader, missed practice on Wednesday with a sprained left ankle. The same injury forced him to leave last week’s win over Seattle in the second quarter.

Abraham was initially hurt in the regular season finale loss to Tampa Bay.